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  • Published: 2 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780698169036
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Heartificial Intelligence

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines





As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves?

The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides a road map to help readers embrace the present and better define their future.  Using fictional vignettes to help readers relate to larger concepts, this book paints a vivid portrait of how our lives might look in either a dystopia of robot dominance or a utopia where we use technology to enhance our natural abilities and evolve into a long-lived, super-intelligent, and caring species.

  • Published: 2 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780698169036
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Praise for Heartificial Intelligence

Reviews for HACKING HAPPINESS:

"The book certainly opens up an important conversation about how individuals can, and should, manage their data in an age of rapid advancements in personal technology. Mashable and Guardian contributing writer Havens provides a detailed defense of how developing technologies in augmented reality and wearable devices can increase happiness...An optimistic vision of how new technologies can be reimagined to increase productivity and personal growth."
--Kirkus Reviews

"More than any time in human history, we have access to mountains of data about ourselves. Hacking H(app)iness is the first book to show us how to leverage this information as a path to happiness, rather than a source of misery."
--Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Give and Take and Wharton professor
"Hacking H(app)iness is a mind boggling and optimistic vision of how new technologies can be reimagined to increase productivity and personal growth--and you don't have to be a geek to like it."
--Michael Port, New York Times-bestselling author of The Think Big Manifesto

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